On this weblog you will find all the information for the workshop Sonic Pi at the ICC-Camp 2024 in Rome.
Sonic Pi
Sonic Pi is a free code-based music creation and performance tool. It is Powerful for professional musicians and DJs, Expressive for composition and performance, Accessible for blind and partially sighted people and is Simple for computing and music lessons. Learn to code creatively by composing or performing music in an incredible range of styles from Classical & Jazz to Hip hop & EDM. Free for everyone with a friendly tutorial.
It is created by Sam Aaron and the Sonic Pi Core Team. In this small youtube movie you will find a live performance from DJ_Dave who is live coding and on a big stage. She is traveling the world to do this.
We will start small but with a lot of practice you will get their.
The steps to take:
- Download the Sonic Pi Software on your windows computer (of on your mac or rasberry pi).
- You will need a headphone or earphones.
- Test the software when it is installed on your computer.
- When you open the software on the left is the code editor, on the right is where the music is played, under are the examples.
- Here is a small shortlist with short keys to use.
- The link to the Google drive with all the documents with material and the samples.
- Start with first sonic pi, drum loop, beat, samples, dr dre and harry potter.
- Play around with the samples, till you have made something you like.
- The link to my ringtone made in sonic pi. If you want to put it on your own phone, this is how i did it (in dutch).
